you have to fund social security and medicare. no. >> what about the pledge to the american people to act fiscally responsibly for everybody, i mean, i actually think that it's great that you made that proposal. but the reality is, most of the congressional districts that are republicans are today they are -- a lot of them are more concerned about a primary challenge to the re-election than to a general challenge to the general election. you're talking about real politics on the ground in these congressional districts. a number of these members ran on strong, you know, fiscal responsible pro-growth agendas. it's not about grover norquist. >> you can make a case that it's not fiscally responsible. >> i think it's going to be very hard for the republicans at the end to resist some rate increase. it's very hard to argue why the top 2% shouldn't see some increase. >> basically, what congressman cole was saying. >> compromise involves compromise in both directions. you're talking about a very small change in marginal rates. i have been